8 must-read autobiography books like The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam by G. Willow Wilson

Cover of The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam by G. Willow Wilson

The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

By: G. Willow Wilson

4.12

Format: None pages,

The extraordinary story of an all-American girl's conversion to Islam and her ensuing romance with …

If you liked the autobiography plot in The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam by G. Willow Wilson , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Ophelia Speaks by Sara Shandler

1. Ophelia Speaks

By: Sara Shandler

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The Barnes & Noble ReviewWhen Sara Shandler was 16, she read psychologist Mary Pipher's Reviving Op… read more

Similar categories in Sara Shandler's Ophelia Speaks book and G. Willow Wilson's The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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2. Maria

By: Maria Augusta von Trapp

3.84

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

The author records her experiences training to become a nun and answering God's call by caring for … read more

Similar categories in Maria Augusta von Trapp's Maria book and G. Willow Wilson's The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of Slave: My True Story by Damien Lewis, Mende Nazer

3. Slave: My True Story

By: Damien Lewis , Mende Nazer

4.27

Format: 367 pages, Paperback

Mende Nazer lost her childhood at age twelve, when she was sold into slavery. It all began one horr… read more

Similar categories in Damien Lewis's Slave: My True Story book and G. Willow Wilson's The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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4. Still Waters

By: Jennifer Lauck

3.99

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Separated from her brother Bryan, and passed from caretaker to caretaker, Jenny discovers - as she … read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lauck's Still Waters book and G. Willow Wilson's The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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5. Race Across Alaska: First Woman to Win the Iditarod Tells Her Story

By: Tim Jones , Libby Riddles

3.87

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Libby Riddles wanted an adventure. At the age of 16 she left home for the snowy frontiers of Alaska… read more

Similar categories in Tim Jones's Race Across Alaska: First Woman to Win the Iditarod Tells Her Story book and G. Willow Wilson's The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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6. Unpolished Gem

By: Alice Pung

4.10

Format: 668 pages, Paperback

After Alice Pung's family fled to Australia from the killing fields of Cambodia, her father chose A… read more

Similar categories in Alice Pung's Unpolished Gem book and G. Willow Wilson's The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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7. The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

By: G. Willow Wilson

4.12

Format: None pages,

The extraordinary story of an all-American girl's conversion to Islam and her ensuing romance with … read more

Similar categories in G. Willow Wilson's The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam book and G. Willow Wilson's The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

  • islam
  • biography
  • memoir
  • egypt
  • autobiography
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of Please Don't Eat the Daisies by Jean Kerr

8. Please Don't Eat the Daisies

By: Jean Kerr

4.04

Format: 192 pages,

Please Don't Eat the Daisieshas sold millions of copies since its original publication in 1957. It … read more

Similar categories in Jean Kerr's Please Don't Eat the Daisies book and G. Willow Wilson's The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir by Amber Dawn

9. How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir

By: Amber Dawn

4.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

As raw and fiery as its author, How Poetry Saved My Lifeis a powerful account of survival and the t… read more

Similar categories in Amber Dawn's How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir book and G. Willow Wilson's The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Green Reaper: Memoirs of an Eco-Mortician by Elizabeth Fournier

10. The Green Reaper: Memoirs of an Eco-Mortician

By: Elizabeth Fournier

3.67

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

When Elizabeth Fournier was eight, her mother and grandparents died. She spent a lot of time in fun… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Fournier's The Green Reaper: Memoirs of an Eco-Mortician book and G. Willow Wilson's The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

  • nonfiction
  • memoir

11. Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography

By: Jean Rhys , Diana Athill

4.06

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

Jean Rhys' unfinished posthumous autobiography. From the early days on Dominica to the bleak time i… read more

Similar categories in Jean Rhys's Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography book and G. Willow Wilson's The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Stet: An Editor's Life by Diana Athill

12. Stet: An Editor's Life

By: Diana Athill

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

A founding editor of the prestigious publishing house Andre Deutsch, Ltd., Athill takes us on a gui… read more

Similar categories in Diana Athill's Stet: An Editor's Life book and G. Willow Wilson's The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Goodnight, and Thanks for the Vodka [2002] by Karl Wiggins, Harpie

13. Goodnight, and Thanks for the Vodka [2002]

By: Karl Wiggins , Harpie

4.11

Format: 176 pages,

A book of Raw Emotion! In Harpie's wacky, psycho, screwball, demented book she bares her soul, reve… read more

Similar categories in Karl Wiggins's Goodnight, and Thanks for the Vodka [2002] book and G. Willow Wilson's The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Knowing Jesse: A Mother's Story of Grief, Grace, and Everyday Bliss by Marianne Leone

14. Knowing Jesse: A Mother's Story of Grief, Grace, and Everyday Bliss

By: Marianne Leone

3.15

Format: None pages,

Jesse Cooper was an honor-roll student who loved to windsurf and write poetry. He also had severe c… read more

Similar categories in Marianne Leone's Knowing Jesse: A Mother's Story of Grief, Grace, and Everyday Bliss book and G. Willow Wilson's The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

15. fathermothergod: My Journey Out of Christian Science

By: Lucia Greenhouse

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Lucia Ewing had what looked like an all-American childhood. She lived with her mother, father, sist… read more

Similar categories in Lucia Greenhouse's fathermothergod: My Journey Out of Christian Science book and G. Willow Wilson's The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

16. So Far Away: A Daughter's Memoir of Life, Loss, and Love

By: Christine W. Hartmann

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Christine Hartmann's mother valued control above all else, yet one event appeared beyond her comman… read more

Similar categories in Christine W. Hartmann's So Far Away: A Daughter's Memoir of Life, Loss, and Love book and G. Willow Wilson's The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

17. In the Midst of Life

By: Jennifer Worth

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Jennifer Worth documents her experiences as a nurse and ward sister, treating patients who were nea… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Worth's In the Midst of Life book and G. Willow Wilson's The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

18. Love in Condition Yellow: A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage

By: None

3.68

Format: 189 pages, Hardcover

Berkeley peace activist Sophia Raday never imagined she would fall in love with an Oakland police o… read more

Similar categories in None's Love in Condition Yellow: A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage book and G. Willow Wilson's The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

19. Narrative of Sojourner Truth

By: Sojourner Truth , None

4.35

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

One of the most famous and admired African-American women in U.S. history, Sojourner Truth sang, pr… read more

Similar categories in Sojourner Truth's Narrative of Sojourner Truth book and G. Willow Wilson's The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

20. Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War

By: Leymah Gbowee , Carol Mithers

4.57

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

In a time of death and terror, Leymah Gbowee brought Liberia's women together--and together they le… read more

Similar categories in Leymah Gbowee's Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War book and G. Willow Wilson's The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

21. Wide Awake and Dreaming: A Memoir

By: None

3.86

Format: None pages, Paperback

Julie Flygare was on an ambitious path to success, entering law school at age 22, when narcolepsy d… read more

Similar categories in None's Wide Awake and Dreaming: A Memoir book and G. Willow Wilson's The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

22. The Times We Had: Life with William Randolph Hearst

By: Marion Davies

4.32

Format: 480 pages,

The was the unofficial empress of Hollywood and she spent a lifetime as the mistress of one of Amer… read more

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23. The Customer Is Always Wrong

By: Mimi Pond

4.04

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

A young woman's art career begins to lift off as those around her succumb to addiction and alcoholi… read more

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24. The Mother Knot

By: Kathryn Harrison

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this dark gem of a book by the author of The Kiss, a complex mother-daughter relationship precip… read more

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25. So Many Africas: Six Years in a Zambian Village

By: Jill Kandel

4.25

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

In 1981, Jill Kandel traveled to the remote Zambian village of Kalabo. She was a bride of six weeks… read more

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26. From Manchester to the Arctic

By: Sheena Billett

4.31

Format: 261 pages, ebook

In the challenging but rapidly changing 1970s, Connie Sanders, a broken-hearted nurse, flees to the… read more

Similar categories in Sheena Billett's From Manchester to the Arctic book and G. Willow Wilson's The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

"The first wave of homesickness caught Connie by surprise. She had not heard or felt its approach until it hit her hard, knocking her to the ground."

-Sheena Billett, From Manchester to the Arctic

"As she was putting her boots on Daisy threw a barb over her shoulder that struck Connie right in the middle of her chest. ‘Grow up, Connie! This place is not for faint-hearted romantics!"

-Sheena Billett, From Manchester to the Arctic

"I don’t think I’ll ever forget this day,’ Connie said. ‘I want to soak up every single moment, so that I can remember it when I’m old. Remember that I…we, did this. I want to have stories to tell whe…"

-Sheena Billett, From Manchester to the Arctic

"It was almost 3 a.m. before Connie got into bed. Sipping cocoa in the cold daylight and listening to the silence, only punctuated by the distant barking of dogs, she began to wonder what she had done…"

-Sheena Billett, From Manchester to the Arctic

Cover of Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind by Darnyelle Jervey Harmon

27. Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind

By: Darnyelle Jervey Harmon

4.29

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Ready to break through the six-figure plateau? Discover an actionable strategy to cross over the mi… read more

Similar categories in Darnyelle Jervey Harmon's Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind book and G. Willow Wilson's The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

  • nonfiction
Cover of Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives by Anne  Michaud

28. Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

By: Anne Michaud

4.29

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

Why do good women stay with bad men? What if political wives are just as calculating as their in… read more

Similar categories in Anne Michaud's Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives book and G. Willow Wilson's The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

  • nonfiction
  • biography
"The political wife came forward and publicly vouched for her straying man. If she could continue to trust and believe in him, the public could too – or so the script went."

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"For each of these women, the fear of the unknown — of leaving a marriage and casting off alone — may have bound them to a marriage where there is insensitivity, neglect, or even outright abuse. Peopl…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"What we witness playing out in the relationships of our public figures we risk finding acceptable in our private lives. Feminists have connected women’s sexual subordination to their unequal status i…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"To leave the marriage behind is to step out of the spotlight. It means fading into normalcy, returning to ordinary life, perhaps an impossible admission for women who have built their egos on being o…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

Cover of Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love by Aimee Cabo Nikolov

29. Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

By: Aimee Cabo Nikolov

4.30

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

Her family secrets burst in the spotlight when Aimee and her sister went to the authorities. In thi… read more

Similar categories in Aimee Cabo Nikolov's Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love book and G. Willow Wilson's The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"We can be beacons of light"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"Unconditional Love conquers all!"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"God is the Cure, Love is the Answer"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

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30. Trailer Trash: an '80s Memoir

By: Angie Cavallari

4.08

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Trailer Trash tells the story of Angie Cavallari, your typical girl growing up in the 1980s who fin… read more

Similar categories in Angie Cavallari's Trailer Trash: an '80s Memoir book and G. Willow Wilson's The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Most days Florence would proudly sport a halter top sans a brassiere and briskly march across her yard in crudely trimmed cut-off-jeans —her cheap flip flops flailing off her feet and her sagging bre…"

-Angie Cavallari, Trailer Trash: an '80s Memoir

Cover of A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community by Natalia Molina

31. A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community

By: Natalia Molina

4.15

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Natalia Molina unveils the hidden history of the Nayarit, a restaurant in Los Angeles that nourishe… read more

Similar categories in Natalia Molina's A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community book and G. Willow Wilson's The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam

  • nonfiction

19 Top nonfiction books like The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam by G. Willow Wilson

Transform Your Habits

Ophelia Speaks

Sara Shandler

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Maria

Maria Augusta von Trapp

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Slave: My True Story

Damien Lewis , Mende Nazer

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Still Waters

Jennifer Lauck

3.99

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Linda Ellerbee

3.74

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The Orchard: A Memoir

Theresa Weir

3.56

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My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City

Alexandra David-Néel

4.33

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Susannah Charleson

4.50

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